What the Diversion Authority is not telling us.
The special interests, with big money, want the diversion alignment to “protect” as much area as possible as then they can have a larger area to develop at a lower cost.
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Defending Richland and Wilkin counties February 7th, 2013
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: “Impacts outside the areas Fargo decided to compensate, designated as the “staging area,” will be evaluated on a “taking” basis. This is just code for “we’re not going to pay for any impacts until/unless you sue us and prove we caused it.”
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties January 31st, 2013
Cass County Commissioner and Diversion Authority Chair Daryl Vanyo: “you wouldn’t have anything out here if it wasn’t for Fargo.”
Continue ReadingEmpty Promises from the Diversion Authority
What good is a promise to build a ring dike when the Diversion Authority fully intends to stick the victims with the price tag?
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties January 17th, 2013
Not many people are interested in buying property that may be condemned in the near future. But the flower throwers say the greatest benefit is that property values will return as soon as the sound of backhoes is heard piling up the Red River Valley clay around them.
Continue ReadingMartin Johnson Comments to the USACE re: Fargo Moorhead Dam and Diversion
Fargo does not care about the rural people or towns they are going to destroy. They built too fast put their housing project in the bottom of drain ditches that we built in the 60’s. They have built all their new schools housing developments in low lying land that always flooded in the early 60’s & 70’s when I wasn’t a part of Fargo.
Continue ReadingComments to the USACE re: Fargo Moorhead Dam and Diversion
It appears that the current plan would have the metro area solve their problems at the expense of their neighbors both up stream and downstream. Why implement a plan that only causes more problems in other areas?
Continue ReadingPaulette Orth Comments to the USACE re: Fargo Moorhead Dam and Diversion
The cost of a Diversion Channel is appalling compared to what it would cost to create eco friendlier alternative measures.
Continue ReadingFargo’s Idea of Protection
Fargo’s greatest threat is not the Richland Wilkin JPA. It’s Fargo and Cass County leaders, the Diversion Authority and the Corps driving future development, into a natural flood plain buffer, for an elite group of land developers.
Continue ReadingNEPA Impact Contact Form
Official NEPA Damage Form Use this form to submit NEPA concerns relating to environmental damages and impacts that could occur as a result of the proposed Fargo Moorhead Dam and FM Diversion. Impacts and Damages will be forwarded to: Rinke Noonan – legal counsel for the Richland Wilkin JPA. Views: 86 Tweet
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